It's hard to believe there wasn't a place in the Daytona area (or all of FL) that SCCY couldn't find to build the new facility. I wonder what "incentives" the county and state offered to SCCY to woo them to choose that new location?

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getvicious wrote:It's hard to believe there wasn't a place in the Daytona area (or all of FL) that SCCY couldn't find to build the new facility. I wonder what "incentives" the county and state offered to SCCY to woo them to choose that new location?

I don't doubt that incentives were offered by Knoxville and/or TN, and maybe countered by Daytona and/or FL.

Joe Roebuck, SCCY founder and CEO, said: "I have owned and operated several manufacturing companies during my career as a product developer and businessman. Success all comes down to people, and Tennessee seems to boast good old-fashioned American work ethic."

Because the Big Springs acreage does not currently have road access nor utility infrastructure extended to the property, under the agreement announced Wednesday SCCY Industries will pay $25,000 an acre for 68 acres in Big Springs Industrial Park for a total cost of $1.7 million.

However, in exchange for providing its own road access and utilities infrastructure, Blount Partnership will write a check for the same amount back to SCCY.

For its part, in addition to building out the infrastructure, SCCY plans in its first phase to construct a $22.5 million, 150,000-square-foot campus that will eventually employ more than 350 people. Additional construction and employment phases will be announced at a later date, and the location is expected to be operational in the first half of 2018.

SCCY was offered either a two-year tax abatement that would begin once the campus was constructed and a certificate of occupancy was issued, or a training grant that would provide $1,600 per employee hired, capped at $400,000.

economod wrote:Because the Big Springs acreage does not currently have road access nor utility infrastructure extended to the property, under the agreement announced Wednesday SCCY Industries will pay $25,000 an acre for 68 acres in Big Springs Industrial Park for a total cost of $1.7 million.

However, in exchange for providing its own road access and utilities infrastructure, Blount Partnership will write a check for the same amount back to SCCY.

For its part, in addition to building out the infrastructure, SCCY plans in its first phase to construct a $22.5 million, 150,000-square-foot campus that will eventually employ more than 350 people. Additional construction and employment phases will be announced at a later date, and the location is expected to be operational in the first half of 2018.

SCCY was offered either a two-year tax abatement that would begin once the campus was constructed and a certificate of occupancy was issued, or a training grant that would provide $1,600 per employee hired, capped at $400,000.

"Roebuck said he got into gunmaking when, as a tool and die maker, he made equipment for another gun company that went out of business. After studying the market for a year, he opened his own, aiming for a high-quality mid-market handgun. Starting with no employees in 2003, he built up to 200 workers in Florida, but had no room to expand, he said.

He also doesn’t consider Florida a “manufacturing state,” but said he believes Tennessee is.

Holt [Company President Wayne Holt], likewise, said SCCY is looking for “intelligent and industrious people,” which he found lacking in the Florida workforce."